Comments on: Winning the GWOW http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/12/03/winning-the-gwow/ The unbearable lightness of Lex. Enjoy! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:43:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Steve http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/12/03/winning-the-gwow/comment-page-1/#comment-291780 Steve Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:08:23 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=6470#comment-291780 Woohoo, Akron U. represent! Woohoo, Akron U. represent!

]]> By: Schroedinger's Cat http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/12/03/winning-the-gwow/comment-page-1/#comment-291571 Schroedinger's Cat Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:31:34 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=6470#comment-291571 Max, If you make the confetti pink and green, the hurricane will just head to Miami. Max,

If you make the confetti pink and green, the hurricane will just head to Miami.

]]> By: Curtis http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/12/03/winning-the-gwow/comment-page-1/#comment-291338 Curtis Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:56:34 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=6470#comment-291338 Lex, I like the gold watch on the banner. Lex,

I like the gold watch on the banner.

]]> By: Bruce Jones http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/12/03/winning-the-gwow/comment-page-1/#comment-291105 Bruce Jones Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:58:46 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=6470#comment-291105 Max, <i>Make the cardboard wrapper pink and green, too. That way, if it doesn’t work, the resulting confetti will make the hurricane too embarassed to be seen on dry land.</i> Sounds Like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Fair_City" rel="nofollow">Kitty</a> all grown up. Max,

Make the cardboard wrapper pink and green, too. That way, if it doesn’t work, the resulting confetti will make the hurricane too embarassed to be seen on dry land.

Sounds Like Kitty all grown up.

]]> By: MaxDamage http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/12/03/winning-the-gwow/comment-page-1/#comment-291092 MaxDamage Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:38:00 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=6470#comment-291092 Oldschool, that pressure spike radiates outward as a wave of high amplitude. It's a sonic boom, after all -- all sound is a pressure wave in the air of a particular frequency and amplitude. The amplitude, or energy, of a sonic boom is pretty impressive. It'll break windows and rattle your teeth from quite a ways away. A few miles, anyway. I'm not so sure a hurricane is going to be, you know, impressed. You'd have to disrupt the airflow in a very precise manner to break up a hurricane. Also strikes me that this isn't anything that couldn't be done with some big ol' firecrackers. Drop a cardboard tube of TNT about the size of a 5-gallon bucket out the door, let a GPS system determine when it's near the point it should detonate... Ya could drop a whole lotta bucket bombs for what it would cost to keep a fast-mover above mach. Safer too. Make the cardboard wrapper pink and green, too. That way, if it doesn't work, the resulting confetti will make the hurricane too embarassed to be seen on dry land. -- Max Oldschool, that pressure spike radiates outward as a wave of high amplitude. It’s a sonic boom, after all — all sound is a pressure wave in the air of a particular frequency and amplitude. The amplitude, or energy, of a sonic boom is pretty impressive. It’ll break windows and rattle your teeth from quite a ways away. A few miles, anyway.

I’m not so sure a hurricane is going to be, you know, impressed. You’d have to disrupt the airflow in a very precise manner to break up a hurricane.

Also strikes me that this isn’t anything that couldn’t be done with some big ol’ firecrackers. Drop a cardboard tube of TNT about the size of a 5-gallon bucket out the door, let a GPS system determine when it’s near the point it should detonate… Ya could drop a whole lotta bucket bombs for what it would cost to keep a fast-mover above mach. Safer too.

Make the cardboard wrapper pink and green, too. That way, if it doesn’t work, the resulting confetti will make the hurricane too embarassed to be seen on dry land.

— Max

]]> By: MissBirdlegs in AL http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/12/03/winning-the-gwow/comment-page-1/#comment-291057 MissBirdlegs in AL Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:35:36 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=6470#comment-291057 LOL, Byron. With no knowledge of supersonic planes and such, I was thinking this sounded an awful lot like the "science" I've read on global warming. LOL, Byron. With no knowledge of supersonic planes and such, I was thinking this sounded an awful lot like the “science” I’ve read on global warming.

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